Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.
There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

